Ventilated hat.



-J. E. SMITH a; W. SULT. VENTILATED HAT. APPLICATION FILED APR. 11,1912.

} 1,103,012. Patented July 7,1914.

THE NORRIS PETERS C0,, PHOTO-LITHO.. WASHINGTON. D C.

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JOHN E. SMITH, 0F LAUREL, AND VJILLIAM F. SULT, 0F GILIVIAN, IOWA,ASSIGNORS TO SUNLIG-H'I. HAT CO., 0F MARSHALLTOWN, IOWA.

VENTILATED HAT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July *7, 1914.

Application filed April 11, 1912. Serial No. 689,971.

To all whom it may come m Be it known that we, Joinv E. SMITH andVILLIAM F. Sour, citizens of the United States, residing at Laurel andGilman, respectively, in the county of Marshall and State of Iowa, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Ventilated Hats, ofwhich the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in ventilated hats, andparticularly consists of a construction, the special features of whichmay be applied to any of the existing forms of soft and stiff hats, oreven straw hats.

The invention is designed as an improve ment over the constructiondisclosed in our pending application filed November 18, 1911, SerialNumber (561,108.

The main object of the invention is to provide a hat which, when in use,will afford a thorough ventilation of all portions of the sides and topof the wearers head. The novel construction employed allows the air toenter between the sweatband and crown, through a plurality of spacedopenings formed throughout the lower edge of the hat at the region wherethe lower edge of the sweatband and the inner edge of the brim of thehat engage the wearers head, and to circulate between such openings andadditional openings which are formed in the upper portion of the crown.

To this end, the invention consists in spacing the sweatband throughoutits circumference from the inner side of the lower portion of the crownadjacent thereto, the air passing through these spaces during itscirculation between the openings in the lower edge of the hat and thoseformed in the crown. The spacing is effected by the insertion of a stripbetween the sweatband and the crown, and which is folded in a peculiarmanner in order to obtain the spacing effect.

For a full understanding of the present ture in section. Fig. 5 is asectional view taken through the sweatband and spacing means hereinafterdescribed.

Throughout the following detail description and on the several figuresof the drawings, similar parts are referred to by like referencecharacters.

In the drawings, the ii'nprovements constituting the present inventionare shown as applied to a soft hat of conventional design, having acrown 1 and brim 2. A sweatband 3, preferably constructed of leather,extends, as is ordinarily the case, throughout the inner circumferenceof the hat, and has its lower edge 1: turned upwardly and preferablystitched throughout the length of such edge to the lower portion of thecrown 1, this arrangement being shown particularly in Fig.

At spaced intervals throughout its circumference, the sweatband isformed at its lower edge with a plurality of openings 5 for theadmission or exit of the air which will circulate through the hat byvirtue of the particular construction employed. These openings cooperatein a novel manner with the spacing means included between the sweatbandand the crown of the hat. A short distance above the openings 5, anotherrow of openings 6 is formed, the same extending throughout the innercircumference of the sweatband, the o1 enings of this second row beingplaced in staggered relation to the openings first described.

In the practice of the invention, we may, however, dispense with the rowof openings (3, if desired, as in some cases sutlicient ventilation maybe afforded by simply employing the row of openings 5.

We will now describe the particular means employed by which the spacingof the sweatband from the lower portion of the crown of the hat adjacentthereto, is obtained.

A strip 7 which,in practice, will possess a width slightly less than thewidth of the hat engaging portion of the sweatband, is folded in amanner best illustrated in Fig. 4. The strip 7 may consist of leather,light metal, a stiff fabric, or any other material suitable for thepurpose, and before being placed between the sweatband and the crown ofthe hat, the material is folded upon itself at spaced intervals, which,when the strip is inserted in place, will extend throughout thecircumference of the hat. These folds form what are substantially aseries of pairs of tubular chambers 8, and pairs of oppositely disposedspaces 9, separated by a wall which forms part of the body of the strip7 The openings 5 will be so disposed with reference to the folded strip7 as to communicate with the tubular passages 8 and the ends of thespaces 9, so that air entering through the openings will pass upwardlythrough the said tubular passages and spaces, into the interior portionsof the hat above the sweatband, and out through the openings in the topof the crown hereinafter referred to or, of course, the movement of theair may be reversed.

It will be seen that the strip folded in the manner described affords ata plurality of points throughout its circumference three thicknesses ofmaterial forming the body of the strip, by which means the sweatband iseffectively spaced from the crown, and will be so maintainedwith-reference thereto at all times that the hat is worn. The openings 6referred to communicate with the inner spaces 9 so as to admit airthereto and thus a more complete ventilating effect may be had. Thestrip 7 may be maintained in its pro-per position either by stitching itto the sweatband at the places where it contacts with the same, or byemploying an adhesive at such places.

. WVhile the structure of the parts referred to in the foregoingconstitute the essential,

novel features of the present invention, We, however, provide a seriesof openings 10 formed in the upper portion of the crown of the hat inthe manner particularly shown in Figs. 1 and 2. These openings, inthemselves, do not comprise a feature of novelty but, in the presentinvention, they cooperate with the openings 5 and 6 in such a manner asto obtain a complete and thorough ventilation of all portions of thewearers head.

The improvements herein described will afford an advantageous effectwhen the invention is used, in connection with any of the existing formsof hats, but the effect is peculiarly advantageous when the invention isapplied to a soft hat. In this case, the air circulating between theopenings 10 and the openings 5 and 6 will tend to always maintain thematerial forming the crown out of close contact with the wearers head,and thus exerts a beneficial cooling effect.

A row of openings 11 is formed in the strip 7 substantially opposite tothe openings 6 formed in the sweatband, as seen in Fig. f. They would beof advantage, however, in case portions of the strip 7 between thetubular chambers 8 should be forced closely against the sweatband andwould then permit the air to pass tothe opposite space 9, the latterbeing under such conditions larger than ordinarily.

It is apparent particularly from Fig. 4L of the drawing that the flutedfiller strip 7 is formed into successive compound convolutions providingspaced multiple thicknesses forming the passage-ways 8 at each compoundconvolution, with the spaces 9, 9 along the length of the strip betweenthe respective points of the folds, with the apertures 5, 6 and 11disposed to admit of and insure free and continuous circulation.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is: i

1. In a ventilated hat, the combination, with a crown, of a sweat bandarranged therein and a fluted strip disposed between the sweat band andthe crown and folded into successive compound convolutions, the folds ofthe convolutions being spaced for forming a double passage-way at thepoints of the fold and leaving passage-ways at each side of the stripbetween the points of the respective folds, the strip and band beingformed with apertures permitting free circulation through and about allpassage-Ways formed by the material of the strip and between/the stripand adjacent parts.

2. A ventilated hat, comprising a crown and a sweatband turned upwardlyat its lower edge, said upwardly turned portion being attached to saidcrown, said sweatband being provided with a plurality of openings at theedgewhere it is turned, and having an additional row of openings locatedabove said edge, and a strip disposed between the sweatband and theadjacent portion of the crown, said strip being folded upon itself atintervals to afford several spaced thicknesses of material at suchfolded places for affording a series of tubular passages whichcommunicate with said first named openings, and also affording a seriesof pairs of oppositely disposed chambers located between said tubularpassages and having communication with said second named openings, saidstrip being provided with openings to afford communication between thechambers of each pair.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

JOHN E. SMITH. WILLIAM F. SULT,

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. G.

